End-Effectors for Tomato Harvesting Robot

Monta, Mitsuji; Kondo, Naoshi; Ting, K. C.

doi:10.1007/978-94-011-5048-4_1

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“…Research works have been reported since 1983 on harvesting a variety of crops using robotic systems. The types of fruit and vegetables harvested included apple (d 'Esnon 1985;Boure1y et aI, 1991), orange (Coppock 1983;Slaughter and Harrell 1987), peach (Vassura 1991), melon (Edan et al 1994), watermelon !ida et al 1995), cucumber (Arima et al 1995), tomato (Monta et al 1996), cabbage (Murakami et al 1995), and mushroom (Reed et al 1995). developed several robotic harvesting hands for fruit vegetables including tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, and cucumbers.…”

Section: Horticultural Robotsmentioning

confidence: 96%

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Robotics for Plant Production

Kondo

Ting

1998

Artificial Intelligence for Biology and Agriculture

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Abstract. Applying robotics in plant production requires the integration of robot capabilities, plant culture, and the work environment. Commercial plant production requires certain cultural practices to be performed on the plants under certain environmental conditions. Some of the environmental conditions are mostly natural and some are modified or controlled. In many cases, the required cultural practices dictate the layout and materials flow of the production system. Both the cultural and environmental factors significantly affect when, where and how the plants are manipulated. Several cultural practices are commonly known in the plant production industry. The ones which have been the subject of robotics research include division and transfer of plant materials in micropropagation, transplanting of seedlings, sticking of cuttings, grafting, pruning, and harvesting of fruit and vegetables. The plants are expected to change their shape and size during growth and development. Robotics technology includes many sub-topics including the manipulator mechanism and its control, end-effector design, sensing techniques, mobility, and workcell development. The robots which are to be used for performing plant cultural tasks must recognize and understand the physical properties of each unique object and must be able to work under various environmental conditions in fields or controlled environments. This article will present some considerations and examples of robotics development for plant production followed by a description of the key components of plant production robots. A case study on developing a harvesting robot for an up-side-down single truss tomato production system will also be described.

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Section: Horticultural Robotsmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…Cultural systems can be developed to facilitate cooperative work between human operators and robots. Figure 7 shows a new plant training system for tomato plants (Monta et al 1996). This is called the upside down single truss tomato production system.…”

Section: Horticultural Approach For Robotic Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Robotics for Plant Production

Kondo

Ting

1998

Artificial Intelligence for Biology and Agriculture

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“…A hybrid tomato picking end-effector was also developed using a combined impactive and astrictive design [69]. This was capable of removing tomatoes with short peduncles, however the gripper had difficulties when there were leaves and stems in the way.…”

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confidence: 99%

State of the Art Robotic Grippers and Applications

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Abstract:In this paper, we present a recent survey on robotic grippers. In many cases, modern grippers outperform their older counterparts which are now stronger, more repeatable, and faster. Technological advancements have also attributed to the development of gripping various objects. This includes soft fabrics, microelectromechanical systems, and synthetic sheets. In addition, newer materials are being used to improve functionality of grippers, which include piezoelectric, shape memory alloys, smart fluids, carbon fiber, and many more. This paper covers the very first robotic gripper to the newest developments in grasping methods. Unlike other survey papers, we focus on the applications of robotic grippers in industrial, medical, for fragile objects and soft fabrics grippers. We report on new advancements on grasping mechanisms and discuss their behavior for different purposes. Finally, we present the future trends of grippers in terms of flexibility and performance and their vital applications in emerging areas of robotic surgery, industrial assembly, space exploration, and micromanipulation. These advancements will provide a future outlook on the new trends in robotic grippers.

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“…Research on fruits and vegetable harvesting robots has been reported more than 20 years ago but none of them has been practically used so far [9,[11][12][13]. The reason is that operational speed of robots is almost same or slower than the manual speed.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%